Constructive Iconoclasm

Early modern reformers claimed to reject a superstitious, image-obsessed medieval past―but what if medieval thinkers had already begun to critique sacred images? This book reveals how late medieval literature reimagined breaking images as radical creation, not destruction. Step into the world of Arthurian legends, The Romance of the Rose, and saints’ lives, where shattered stat...

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Yun Ni is Assistant Professor of English at Peking University. She received her PhD in Comparative Literature from Harvard University in 2019. Her research focuses on late medieval English literature, philosophy, religious culture, and premodern cross-cultural studies. Her work has appeared in Medium Ævum, The Chaucer Review, JEGP, Parergon, Neophilologus, and Religion and Lite...

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